PR: Joining the wacko club

Environmentalists and members of the scientific, religious, and legal community, urged Gov. Sila Calderon on Tuesday to approve articles within the new penal code that criminalize environmental law violations.

“By classifying these offenses as environmental crimes, a legislative void is filled within the legal code, they fall in line with constitutional mandates to protect and preserve environmental resources. That is why we demand that the articles be approved as they were originally written,” said Inter American University Environmental Law Program Director Jessica Rodriguez Martin.

This would be commendable if many environmentalists weren't extremists who thought that man is a blot on the earth. As it stands, a law that might be a positive in terms of cleaning up environmental disasters, might well be abused to prevent development and other human land use. Too often, environmentalists cross the line when they tell land-owners what they cannot do with their own land to preserve some species that will later be found to be highly adaptable.

I recall seeing a peregrine falcon at Columbia University in New York, in the early 90s. Nobody knew where he'd come from, but there he was. Predatory, regal, master of all he surveyed, spreading his wings and flying where it pleased him. Just like the owl, who had been thought to belong to some highlyl specialized environment, but who built his nest in some high rise building.

So, I'm highly sceptical of environmentalist wackos. You see, I believe that God has created His universe to be self-healing (which some forms of algae seem to prove), though man must have a care to the world that is his domain.

As for environmental wackos, they seem to believe that the only good human is a dead human -- unless the human is an environmentalist, of course.